Ash receiver



y 3- s. FERMAN 2 318 149 AS H RECEIVER Filed May 21, 1941 Patented May4, 1943 STAT E S PAT E T ()FF ICE Claims.

This invention relates to an improvement in ash receivers or trays whichmay be relatively small but, nevertheless, can accommodate a largernumber of cigarette or cigar stubs than the ordinary tray of similarsize, the principal object of the invention being to provide an improvedtray so constructed that it will also, when desired, snuff out orextinguish lighted cigarettes or cigars, thereby materially lesseningthe danger of fire, and which improvement will be simple inconstruction, efiicient in use and inexpensive to manufacture.

In the drawing accompanying and forming a part of this specification,Fig. 1 is a top viewof one form of this improved ash tray.

Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a view similar to that shown in Fig. 1 illustrating adifferent form of ash tray, and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary section thereof taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

Similar characters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in theseveral views.

Before explaining in detail the present improvement and its mode ofoperation, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited tothe details of construction and arrangement of parts illustrated in theaccompanying drawing since the invention is capable of otherembodiments, and that the phraseology employed is for the purpose ofdescription and not of limitation.

This improved ash tray comprises a base tray 2 which may be of any shapedesired. As shown in Fig. 1, it is of rectangular or square formation,

while, in Fig. tion.

The tray 2 is constructed with a flat bottom and upstanding side walls 3and has its edge portion 4 fluted as at 5, Fig. l, or provided with aseries of recesses 6, Fig. 3.

Within the tray 2 and spaced from the upstanding side walls 3 thereof toform an ash receiving portion 3' is a smaller tray 7 having itsupstanding side wall outwardly curved with a convex outer surface, sothat it, together with the interior bottom surface of the outer tray 2,will act to hold cigarettes in the angular position shown in Fig. 2 andcause snufiing out of the lighted end thereof.

This tray 1 is preferably round or of circular formation so that itsupturned edge 8, which is shown as curved, is of such form andconstruction that it will provide a wedge-shaped recess or space 1" intowhich the lighted end of a cigarette or cigar may be inserted to pinchand extinguish it and which, together with the upturned edge of 3, it isof round or circular formathe outer tray 2 will hold the cigarette in anupright angular position.

The upper edges of the trays may be formed in any suitable manner but,as shown, the outer tray has flutes 5 or recesses 6 and the inner trayis smooth. In the present instance, the smaller tray 1 is preferablysecured to the larger tray 2 by an adhesive 9 of suitable material topermit the shifting of the smaller tray into various positions withinthe main tray 2, although the twotrays may be integral.

Thus, it will be seen that, in the use of this improved ash tray, when aburning cigarette or cigar is placed in the inner ash tray, as at l0,and forgotten, when it burns away to a point where the remainder of thecigarette becomes topheavy, it will drop into the outer tray, as at l2,and not outside thereof or on to the floor or furniture where it isliable to cause damage. Furthermore, the inner tray will support alighted cigarette in such position that it will not ignite butts in theouter tray, causing annoying smoke, or interfere with the positioning ofmany cigarettes around such outer tray.

In the modified form illustratedin Figs. 3 and 4, all parts are the sameexcept the outer tray which is indicated as 22 having an upstanding wall23 and the recesses 6 hereinbefore referred to.

When it is desired to extinguish a cigarette or cigar, the butt, insteadof being dropped indiscriminately into either tray, may be inserted intothe angular recess 7" formed by the outer upturned edge of the innertray and the bottom of the supporting tray, as indicated at l3 in Figs.2 and 4, so that it will be noted that the construction of the trays issuch that they will act as a snufier to extinguish the lighted end ofthe cigarette or cigar and at the same time hold the butt in thisangular position.

In actual practice, it has been found that an ash tray of this improvedconstruction with the outer tray of but four inches in diameter, eitherround or square, is capable of accommodating more than two packages ofcigarettes or over forty cigarette stubs while, .at the same timeleaving the inner tray free for the use of the smoker without anyinterference from the stubs.

In conclusion, it will thus be seen that this improved ash tray is soconstructed that the upstanding side walls flare outwardly from thejuxtaposed bottom portions with the side wall of the inner tray having aconvex curvature on its outer side, these side walls being so spacedapart as to form therebetween a recess of varying diameters adjacent tosaid juxtaposed bottom portions thereby forming the wedge-shaped recesshereinbefore referred to adjacent to said juxtaposed bottom portions,and has five advantages over the ordinary ash tray-(l) it will serve toextinguish or snufi out the burning end of a cigarette while at the sametime maintainin it in a partially upright position to prevent it fallingfrom the tray; (2) the outer tray of comparatively small size willaccommodate the remains of two or more packs of cigarettes in apartially upright position; (3) leaving the inner tray free to holdlighted cigarettes in such position that they will not ignite theremains of other cigarettes in the outer tray; (4) should the lightedcigarettes held in the inner tray be forgotten and gradually burn away,the remains will fall into the outer tray instead of on the floor orfurniture, and (5) when a lighted cigarette is laid across the parallelupper edges of the trays as is not uncommonly the practice, when thelighted end has partially burned away so as no longer to be supported bythe upper edge of the inner tray, the ash will break away so that thecigarette will naturally fall down in to the relatively wide spacebetween the two trays.

Having. thus explained the nature of my said invention and described away of constructing and using the same, although without attempting toset forth all of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modesof its use, I claim:

1. An ash receiver comprising a pair of superposed ash receivingmembers, one being located within the ash receiving portion of the otherand forming therebetween a wedge-shaped recess for holding and snufilngstubs, and means for securing said members together optionally in anyoneof a plurality of relatively lateral positions.

2. An ash receiver comprising a pair of superposed ash receivingmembers, one being located within the ash receiving portion of. theother and forming therebetween a wedge-shaped recess for holding andsnufling stubs, and adhesive means for releasably securing said memberstogether optionally in any one of a plurality of relatively lateralpositions, said members having their upper edges substantially in thesame plane.

3. An ash receiver comprising a pair of superposed ash receivingmembers, one being located within the ash receiving portion of theother, said inner member being provided with an outwardly extendinguniformly curved upturned wall providing therebetween and the outermember a wedge-shaped recess within said outer ash receiving portion forholding and snufiing stubs, and means for securing said members togetheroptionally in any one of a plurality of relatively lateral positions.

4. An ash receiver comprising a pair of superposed ash receivingmembers, one being located within the ash receiving portion of theother, said inner member being provided with an outwardly extendinguniformly curved upturned wall providing therebetween and the outermember a. wedge-shaped recess for holding and snuifing stubs, andadhesive means for releasably securing said members together optionallyin any one of a plurality of relatively lateral positions, said membershaving their upper edges substantially in the same plane.

An ash tray comprising a pair of receptacles, one within the other, withtheir bottoms in juxtaposition and their upstanding side walls outwardlyflaring from such juxtaposed bottom portions and with their upper edgessubstantially in the same horizontal plane, the side walls being sospaced apart as to form therebetween a recess of Varying diametersadjacent "to said juxtaposed bottom portions, thereby forming awedge-shaped recess adjacent to said juxtaposed bottom portions wherebya cigarette may be readily inserted between the spaced apart walls andbe snufied out in the wedge-shaped recess, the upstanding wall of theouter receptacle terminating in a relatively flat bottom ash receivingportion extending laterally beyond the outermost periphery of said innerreceptacle.

SIDNEY FERMAN.

